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J. HAGERTY.

DEVICE FOR SETTING STONES IN JEWELRY. No. 245,715. Patented Aug. 16,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HAGERTY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO DANIEL S. GOOKE, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR SETTING STONES IN JEWELRY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,715, dated August 16, 1881.

Application filed June 17,1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN HAGERTY, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Device for Setting Stones in Sleeve-Buttons and other Articles of Jewelry; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

[0 Figure 1 is an elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section, showing the operating parts of the device and the button.

The object of my invention is to produce a device with which the stones of sleeve-buttons and other articles of jewelry may be set with rapidity, and at the same time set evenly and true; and it consists in the combination and arrangement of a die and plunger, together with the particular construction and operation 26 of the same, as hereinafter described.

Myinvention,while adapted to setting stones in general, is more particularly designed for use in connection with the manufacture of buttons under patent of the United States granted to Daniel S. Cooke and Edward H. Spencer, J r.,, December 28,1880, and numbered 235,853.

In the drawings, A is the frame of the device, B a plunger, and O a die.

The plungerB is retained while at restin the 0 position shown in Fig. 1 by a spiral spring, D.

The die 0 works within a barrel, E, and is provided with a tail-piece, which rests upon a spring, F.

G is a handle or lever for forcing down the 3 5 plunger B.

Having described the several paris of my invention, I will now proceed to describe its operation.

The stone H is placed within the outer rim or shell, I, of the button. The spring J is laid 40 upon the stone, and the back K, with its post L, placed in position, and the inner ring, M, adjusted with the fingers. After the parts of the button are put together, as described, the whole is laid upon the die O, as shown in Fig. 5 2, and the plunger B forced down by the action of the hand upon the lever G. The plunger B is hollow at its lower end to receive the post L. As the plunger B comes in contact with the inner ring, M, and forces it into the outer 5o rim, I, thedie O' yields by thecompression of the spring F, which has the effect to keep the stone in an even and true position, as will be readily understood. The inner ring, M, having been forced by the device into the outer rim, I, the stone is firmly secured, and the button is removed and finished as may be desired.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The yielding die 0, with its barrel E and spring F, in combination with a hollow plunger, B, and spring D, operating in a suitable frame by means of a hand-lever or other suitable device, for the purposes specified.

JOHN HAGEBTY.

Witnesses:

WALTER B. VINCENT, JOHN J. OoLToN. 

